Some helpful advice for Ed Miliband from Dame Tessa Jowell. Speaking at Tooting Labour Party’s Christmas dinner the other night, Jowell said she had told the Labour leader that he should have a sign on his desk saying “Eff Off”, to help him deal with critical journalists and commentators who, she said, didn’t have “real jobs”.

Spy thought the Insolvency & Rescue Awards were scraping a new low (tickets £295, carriages at 1am, to celebrate the country’s best corporate undertakers) but now news has landed of this year’s Conference Awards.